Is there any way to install the Windows Server AppFabric on the windows server 2008 web edition ?
Or at least the WCF hosting enviroment.
What are the supported edition for appfabric ?
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What makes you think you can't install AppFabric on Server 2008 Web? Comparing the Server 2008 Web overview here and the AppFabric requirements here I don't see anything that suggests the two aren't compatible.
The rationale behind this is that Appfabric is designed for the middle-tier, not the web tier.
So. Accepting that you can't install on Web Server, what are your options?
Windows Server 2008, Standard Edition
So if you want to use AppFabric but you can't afford Enterprise Edition, can you afford Windows 2008 Server Standard Edition. AppFabric will install on it quite happily, and you can install IIS and DNS services on it to replicate what you get in Web Edition. The only thing you won't have is the high availability AppFabric features, but had you been able to install on Web Edition you wouldn't have had that anyway so you're not missing out.AppFabric Client on Web Server, AppFabric Service on Standard Edition
Kind of an extension of 1. If you have your heart set on using Windows Web Server, you can install the AppFabric client libraries on Web Server, and then run the AppFabric service on a Standard Edition server.Other Distributed Cache
Could you use one of the other distributed caching setups e.g. memcached, SharedCache, NCache?
PhilPursglove
2010-09-27 15:06:20
When I was installing AppFabric I got a message "Unsupported Operating System Edition". You can see here http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff637701.aspx .This really bad. The enteprise edition is pretty expensive.
2010-09-27 15:27:49
Having tried it this morning myself I get the same message :-( It's pretty sucky that this restriction isn't mentioned in the AppFabric system requirements.
PhilPursglove
2010-09-29 11:07:09
Yes, I totaly forgot about the standart editions! But if I run a webserver on the standart edition do I have to have for each visitor a CAL (client access license)?
2010-10-02 10:29:10
@user137348 I'm no licensing expert but I don't *believe* so...
PhilPursglove
2010-10-02 10:51:53